Residents on delicate balance of crossing flooded rivers

A man pass through Kumfunje Bridge at Maraka village in Webuye. The bridge was constructed by the family of Mary Mucharia and Joseph Juma in 1990 where people who use it have to pay Sh10 per day. [Duncan Ocholla, Standard]

Rainy seasons always came with tragedy in Bungoma, the worst being at River Nzoia, where many locals were eaten by crocodiles while trying to swim across.

In the 1990s elders sought a permanent solution to the death trap in River Nzoia. The elders invented a suspended footbridges.